Do Self Help Books Really Help? With Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week Kat is joined by not one but two guests, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer. Jolenta and Kristen both consider themselves advice critics. They spent years living by and critiquing advice from self-help books for their podcast By The Book and now they’re ready to discuss wellness-related questions and help debunk all the self-help myths and promises in their new podcast, How To Be Fine which premiered on February 23rd. In this episode, Kat, Jolenta, & Kristen talk about their experiences- what they thought was all BS, what they learned, what worked, and what was just weird.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Michael Lewis here. |
| 0:06.8 | My bestselling book, The Big Short, tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S. |
| 0:12.1 | housing market back in 2008. |
| 0:14.8 | A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. |
| 0:18.7 | Now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an |
| 0:21.6 | audiobook narrated by yours truly. The Big Short Story, what it means to bet against the market, |
| 0:27.5 | and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been. |
| 0:33.2 | Get the Big Short now at Pushkin.fm slash audio books or wherever audio books are sold. |
| 0:40.7 | Coming up on you need therapy. They really do think that they can't move through life happily |
| 0:45.8 | unless they forgive. They do feel like they're punishing themselves. Whereas the way I see it, |
| 0:50.9 | I'm like, well, the original definition of forgiveness is essentially like, |
| 0:54.2 | I'm absolving you. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm telling you, oh, no, that's okay. |
| 0:56.9 | And sometimes it's not okay. |
| 0:58.8 | And it's okay for me to not say it's okay. |
| 1:02.5 | I started to realize that not being an expert isn't a liability. |
| 1:06.9 | It's a real gift. |
| 1:08.8 | If we don't know something about ourselves at this point in our life, |
| 1:11.9 | it's probably because it's uncomfortable to know. |
| 1:14.8 | If you can die before you die, then you can really live. |
| 1:18.7 | There's a wisdom at death's door. |
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